Comments on: Gabriel’s Revelation http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/ Because the wise know they know nothing. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:55:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kimberlee http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-107 Kimberlee Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:17 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-107 Thanks for visiting, James. Glad you enjoyed the post. -Kimberlee Thanks for visiting, James. Glad you enjoyed the post. -Kimberlee

]]> By: james http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-106 james Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:09:23 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-106 Great post, People need to read this. Great post, People need to read this.

]]> By: percyflage http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-14 percyflage Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:57:59 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-14 Thanks so much for the considerable insights in your 1peter315 blog post, Stephen. They greatly clarify the issue, and help to put this interesting archaeological find into proper (non-sensationalized) perspective. I highly encourage all to give it a read. Best, Kimberlee Thanks so much for the considerable insights in your 1peter315 blog post, Stephen. They greatly clarify the issue, and help to put this interesting archaeological find into proper (non-sensationalized) perspective. I highly encourage all to give it a read.
Best,
Kimberlee

]]> By: Stephen Bedard http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-13 Stephen Bedard Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:04:21 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-13 Just to let you know, I posted my comments on the Gabriel Stone on my blog www.1peter315.wordpress.com. Thanks. Just to let you know, I posted my comments on the Gabriel Stone on my blog http://www.1peter315.wordpress.com. Thanks.

]]> By: percyflage http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-9 percyflage Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:37:10 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-9 Dear Stephen, You're most welcome. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject, too. So, please be sure and check back in. Yours, Kimberlee Dear Stephen,
You’re most welcome. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject, too. So, please be sure and check back in.
Yours,
Kimberlee

]]> By: Stephen Bedard http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-8 Stephen Bedard Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:02:41 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-8 I appreciate your post on this. I am doing a little bit of research on this for a project I am working on and you give me some things to think about. Thanks. I appreciate your post on this. I am doing a little bit of research on this for a project I am working on and you give me some things to think about. Thanks.

]]> By: percyflage http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-5 percyflage Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:49:12 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-5 Dear Jdgilkenson, Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely correct in that faith does not require proof, by definition. That said, it remains interesting (at least to me) to learn as much as we can historically, but with the understanding that that route has its definite limitations. Best, Kimberlee Dear Jdgilkenson,
Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely correct in that faith does not require proof, by definition. That said, it remains interesting (at least to me) to learn as much as we can historically, but with the understanding that that route has its definite limitations.
Best,
Kimberlee

]]> By: Jdgilkenson http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-4 Jdgilkenson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:48:16 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-4 Whats interesting to me is that any facts relating to Christ or his resurrection will never be able to be proven definatively....no matter how man tries to get his mind around it. It just wont happen. God calls for faith and by its definition you cant have faith with proof. Only a few got to see it first hand and that was to make it easier for the stupid ones that would come along in the future to have faith.It just amazes me that some of our brightest scholarly minds fumble around the REAL truth found in faith in Jesus as the messiah in order find real proof that he was or wasnt. Doesnt work with God and those who continue down that path will find out how foolish they really were and die in their sins. Whats interesting to me is that any facts relating to Christ or his resurrection will never be able to be proven definatively….no matter how man tries to get his mind around it. It just wont happen. God calls for faith and by its definition you cant have faith with proof. Only a few got to see it first hand and that was to make it easier for the stupid ones that would come along in the future to have faith.It just amazes me that some of our brightest scholarly minds fumble around the REAL truth found in faith in Jesus as the messiah in order find real proof that he was or wasnt.
Doesnt work with God and those who continue down that path will find out how foolish they really were and die in their sins.

]]> By: percyflage http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-3 percyflage Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:40:13 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-3 Dear Museum Ethics, Thanks so much for your extremely informative comments. I read through the links you sent and was quite interested to hear about the so-called "alternative" theory about Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. I'm very surprised that the displaced library idea is not more popularized/mainstream here in America. (I must say that I am not in the field of Bible studies, just an amateur enthusiast and so don't know the state of the field in particular.) For what it's worth, the issues surrounding the presentation of the traveling Scrolls exhibit sounds like a case of the prevalent popularization of museum exhibits; ones that simplify and gloss over scholarly debate for the sake of appeasing a somewhat uncultured, or worse, dogmatic and incurious (yet of course, paying) general audience. Of course, I can only speak as an art historian, and questioning the role of museums in educating/serving the community may be another thread altogether... Thanks again. Best wishes, Kimberlee Dear Museum Ethics,
Thanks so much for your extremely informative comments.
I read through the links you sent and was quite interested to hear about the so-called “alternative” theory about Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. I’m very surprised that the displaced library idea is not more popularized/mainstream here in America. (I must say that I am not in the field of Bible studies, just an amateur enthusiast and so don’t know the state of the field in particular.)
For what it’s worth, the issues surrounding the presentation of the traveling Scrolls exhibit sounds like a case of the prevalent popularization of museum exhibits; ones that simplify and gloss over scholarly debate for the sake of appeasing a somewhat uncultured, or worse, dogmatic and incurious (yet of course, paying) general audience.
Of course, I can only speak as an art historian, and questioning the role of museums in educating/serving the community may be another thread altogether…
Thanks again.
Best wishes,
Kimberlee

]]> By: Museum Ethics http://percyflage.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gabriels-revelation/#comment-2 Museum Ethics Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:45:29 +0000 http://percyflage.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-2 It is highly probable this stone tablet text is simply another sensationalist scam, as is clearly indicated by the facts (1) that no specific information is available on its provenance and (2) that no details are provided on carbon dating of the ink. As such, this "news" falls right in line with the faked Lost-Tomb-of-Jesus "documentary" designed to make a profit off of people's fascination with the "real" Jesus, and with the larger scandal of the biased and misleading way the Dead Sea scrolls are being presented in museum exhibits around the world, with an antisemitic expression appearing on a government-run North Carolina museum's website. See, e.g., http://spinozaslens.com/libet/articles/dworkin_ethicsofexhibition.htm and http://blog.news-record.com/staff/frontpew/archives/2008/06/dead_sea_scroll.shtml. It is highly probable this stone tablet text is simply another sensationalist scam, as is clearly indicated by the facts

(1) that no specific information is available on its provenance and

(2) that no details are provided on carbon dating of the ink.

As such, this “news” falls right in line with the faked Lost-Tomb-of-Jesus “documentary” designed to make a profit off of people’s fascination with the “real” Jesus, and with the larger scandal of the biased and misleading way the Dead Sea scrolls are being presented in museum exhibits around the world, with an antisemitic expression appearing on a government-run North Carolina museum’s website. See, e.g.,

http://spinozaslens.com/libet/articles/dworkin_ethicsofexhibition.htm

and

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/frontpew/archives/2008/06/dead_sea_scroll.shtml.

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